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PRESENT SIMPLE VS PRESENT CONTINUOUS

Choose the correct verb form.


1 - I have / am having a great time on this holiday.
2 - She's Italian- she comes / is coming from Pisa.
3 - 'Are you enjoying / do you enjoy your meal?' 'Yes, it's very good.'
4 - This term, I study / am studying Latin.
5 - Do you come / are you coming to see us next month?
6 - Let me know when you receive / are receiving this letter.
8 - Water boils / is boiling at a hundred degrees.
10 - I make / am making a lot of progress at the moment.
11 - It worries / is worrying me a lot at the moment.
12 - I get / am getting up at seven o'clock on weekdays.
Fill in the spaces with the correct form of the verb in simple present tense or
present continuous tense.
1. Right now I (watch) _____________ a movie. I (watch) _______ a lot of
movies.
2. Rickie (be) _______ my friend. We (like) _______ to talk together. Right now
we (talk) ______________ about school.
3. The police officer (wear) ________ a badge and a gun to work every day.
4. Jaime usually (eat) _______ cold cereal for breakfast, but today he (eat)
_______ ________ oatmeal instead.
5. Alison and I (study) _______ _______ for the exam. We (not, want) _______
______________ to fail it!
6. Jonas (sing) ________ in the band on Saturdays, and Veda (play) _______
the guitar.
7. My uncle (live) _______ in Tennessee. I (live) _______ in North Carolina.
8. My mom (cook) ______________ dinner tonight. (You, want) ____________
_______ to eat with us?
9. Tiffany and Mark (travel) ______________ to Spain. They will stay in Madrid.
10.
We (read) _______ the newspaper every morning.
Complete the text with the correct form of the verb in simple present tense or
present continuous tense.
1. My favourite aunt, Monica, ____________ (teach) archeology at the university.

Right now she ____________ (give) a class on the art of ancient Egypt.
She ____________ (do) a lot of sports and ____________ (go) to the cinema
regularly. This month, she ____________ (learn) to hang glide. But she also
____________ (climb) mountains every weekend and ____________ (do) scuba
diving when she is on holidays.

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